Taylor Swift: The scourge of Spotify

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy On “Welcome to New York”, her latest hit single, Taylor Swift sings with wide-eyed enthusiasm about the experience of being a youthful, aspirational newcomer to the Big Apple. “I just don’t agree with perpetuating the perception that music has no value and should be free.” Swift moved to New York less than a year ago – not to a poky, shared apartment in outer Brooklyn, mind you, but to a $15m Tribeca loft, where her neighbours include Orlando Bloom and Steven Soderbergh. Swift complains to her boyfriend that they haven’t picked out a romantic radio hit to soundtrack their relationship, to which the boyfriend artfully replies: “Our song is the slamming screen door/ Sneakin’ out late, tapping on your window/ When we’re on the phone and you talk real slow/ ’cause it’s late and your mama don’t know.” open image in gallery Taylor Swift has spent years in the spotlight For such precocious songwriting, Swift was soon rewarded not only with multiplatinum sales, but also multiple music prizes. One new track, “Bad Blood”, is believed to refer to a falling-out with Perry, who reportedly poached some of Swift’s dancers for a recent tour, and with whom Swift shares an ex, singer-songwriter John Mayer.